IFT received an Army SBIR Phase I contract “Emulated Long Term Evolution (LTE) Analysis Environment”.  In this project IFT will develop an emulation system capable of deploying a full Long Term Evolution (LTE) Fifth Generation (5G) architecture, including all subcomponents, utilizing open source software, into self-contained commodity personal computer hardware. IFT will utilize open source shared code components to construct LTE software and standardized interfaces with an emulated physical layer in Extendable Mobile Ad-hoc Network Emulator (EMANE) to provide a low cost capability to rapidly conduct research and experimentation on utilizing LTE for tactical comms and the performance of tactical sensors and other mission command systems under varying scenario configurations and conditions.